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COPY OF THE PRI:\IE SERGE.AXT'S LETTER.
enquiry he found that a ship of 250 tons, laden with wheat and flour, the property of some people at Derry, which is daily expected at Corke, and that the same is consigned to Mr. Wm. Alexander and Mr. George Knox, both of Dublin, value of cargo £3000, the Prime Sergt. waited on his -Excellency for permission to contract with ~fessrs. Alexander and Knox for the whole to be sold in Cork at moderate prices to the poor, but postponed doing any- thing till he received some authentic account of such particular. The Prime Sergeant, by his letter, directs ~fr. Lawton to advance £50 to relieve the neces- sities of the poor inhabitants ; ordered, that an address of thanks in the name of the Mayor, &c., be sent to His Excellency for his gracious aid, and also to the Prime Sergeant for his repeated services to this City and generous benefaction, and that in said address application be made under the Prime Sergeant's plan to buy two cargoes of wheat arrived this day in harbour, and the two or three first cargoes of wheat or flour that shall arrive, instead of sending to Bristol for the same, or contracting for the cargo of wheat and flour consigned to ~fessrs. Alexander and Knox. Present-Mr. 1\fayor, Sher. Rowland and Willcocks; Alden. Jackson, Newman, Owgan, Westropp, Millerd, Wri.xon, Busteed, Swete, John Wrixon, Travers, and Mr. Browne. 12 May, 1766. Copy of the Prime Sergeant's letter, in answer to a letter of thanks: " Gentlemen, "I immediately laid your address before the Lo.-Lieut., who agreed to what you desire. Messrs. Lawton and Carleton may either draw upon his Excellency for the amount of the two cargoes which you have purchased, or, if they choose to be in advance, charge interest and commis- sion in the usual wax, and draw nnon the Treasug for what remains due,
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